Hungary at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Hungary competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The nation returned after the Soviet bloc boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics. 188 competitors, 152 men and 36 women, took part in 135 events in 20 sports.

Medalists

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%"

!Medal

!Name

!Sport

!Event

!Date

| || || Swimming || Men's 400 metre individual medley || 21 September

| || || Modern pentathlon || Men's individual || 22 September

| || || Modern pentathlon || Men's team || 22 September

| || || Wrestling || Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg || 22 September

| || || Swimming || Men's 200 metre breaststroke || 23 September

| || || Gymnastics || Men's pommel horse || 24 September

| || || Swimming || Men's 200 metre individual medley || 25 September

| || || Swimming || Women's 200 metre backstroke || 25 September

| || || Fencing || Men's team sabre || 29 September

| || || Canoeing || Men's K-1 500 metres || 30 September

| || || Canoeing || Men's K-4 1000 metres || 1 October

| || || Swimming || Men's 100 metre breaststroke || 19 September

| || || Wrestling || Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg || 22 September

| || || Swimming || Women's 100 metre backstroke || 22 September

| || || Weightlifting || Men's 82.5 kg || 24 September

| || || Weightlifting || Men's 110 kg || 27 September

| || || Canoeing || Women's K-4 500 metres || 1 October

| || || Shooting || Men's 50 metre rifle prone || 19 September

| || || Shooting || Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol || 23 September

| || || Fencing || Men's team foil || 27 September

| || || Fencing || Women's team foil || 28 September

| || || Boxing || Light flyweight || 29 September

| || || Canoeing || Men's K-2 500 metres || 30 September

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

! width=180|Sport

! width=55|Men

! width=55|Women

! width=55|Total

| align=left|Athletics

| 12 || 3 || 15

| align=left|Boxing

| 9 || – || 9

| align=left|Canoeing

| 12 || 4 || 16

| align=left|Cycling

| 1 || 0 || 1

| align=left|Diving

| 0 || 3 || 3

| align=left|Fencing

| 15 || 5 || 20

| align=left|Gymnastics

| 6 || 8 || 14

| align=left|Handball

| 14 || 0 || 14

| align=left|Judo

| 7 || – || 7

| align=left|Modern pentathlon

| 3 || – || 3

| align=left|Rowing

| 4 || 4 || 8

| align=left|Sailing

| 3 || 0 || 3

| align=left|Shooting

| 11 || 4 || 15

| align=left|Swimming

| 10 || 3 || 13

| align=left|Table tennis

| 3 || 2 || 5

| align=left|Tennis

| 2 || 0 || 2

| align=left|Water polo

| 13 || – || 13

| align=left|Weightlifting

| 10 || – || 10

| align=left|Wrestling

| 18 || – || 18

! Total || 152 || 36 || 188

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

Attila Kovács
István Tatár
György Fetter

Men's 200 metres

Attila Kovács

Men's 110 metres Hurdles

György Bakos

Men's 4×100 metres Relay

György Bakos
László Karaffa
István Tatár
Attila Kovács

Men's 3,000m Steeplechase

Bela Vago

:* Heat — did not start (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

László Szalma

:* Qualification — 7.91m

:* Final — 8.00m (→ 6th place)

Men's Pole Vault

István Bagyula

Men's Hammer Throw

Tibor Gécsek

:* Qualification — 77.12m

:* Final — 78.36m (→ 6th place)

Imre Szitás

:* Qualification — 76.24m

:* Final — 77.04m (→ 7th place)

József Vida

:* Qualification — 74.30m (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

Dezső Szabó — 8093 points (→ 13th place)

:# 100 metres — 11.02s

:# Long Jump — 7.29m

:# Shot Put — 12.92m

:# High Jump — 2.06m

:# 400 metres — 48.23s

:# 110m Hurdles — 14.96s

:# Discus Throw — 39.54m

:# Pole Vault — 5.00m

:# Javelin Throw — 56.80m

:# 1.500 metres — 4:17.85s

Men's 20 km Walk

Sándor Urbanik

:* Final — 1:23:18 (→ 21st place)

Men's 50 km Walk

Sándor Urbanik

:* Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Marathon

Karolina Szabo

:* Final — 2"32.26 (→ 13th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

Zsuzsa Malovecz

:* Qualification — 64.30m

:* Final — 54.58m (→ 12th place)

Boxing

{| class="wikitable" style=font-size:90%;text-align:center

!rowspan=2|Athlete

!rowspan=2|Event

!First Round

!Second Round

!Third Round

!Quarterfinal

!Semifinal

!colspan=2|Final

|-style=font-size:95%

!Opposition Result

!Rank

|Róbert Isaszegi

|Light flyweight

|| W 5–0

|| W

|| W 3–2

|| L 1–4

|Did not advance

|László Szőke

|Featherweight

|| L on points

|colspan=4|Did not advance

|Did not advance

|=33

Canoeing

Cycling

One male cyclist represented Hungary in 1988.

;Men's individual pursuit

Miklós Somogyi

;Men's point race

Miklós Somogyi

Diving

;Women

{|class=wikitable style="font-size:90%"

!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Events

!colspan="2"|Preliminaries

!colspan="2"|Final

|-style="font-size:95%"

!Points

!Rank

!Points

!Rank

|-align=center

|align=left|Katalin Haász

|align=left rowspan=2|3 m springboard

|378.27

|22

|colspan=2|Did not advance

|-align=center

|align=left|Ágnes Gerlach

|355.14

|25

|colspan=2|Did not advance

|-align=center

|align=left|Ildikó Kelemen

|align=left|10 m platform

|355.17

|12 Q

|322.59

|11

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Hungary in 1988.

;Men's foil

Zsolt Érsek
Róbert Gátai
Pál Szekeres

;Men's team foil

Zsolt Érsek, Pál Szekeres, István Szelei, István Busa, Róbert Gátai

;Men's épée

Ernő Kolczonay
Zoltán Székely
Szabolcs Pásztor

;Men's team épée

László Fábián, Ferenc Hegedűs, Ernő Kolczonay, Szabolcs Pásztor, Zoltán Székely

;Men's sabre

György Nébald
Imre Gedővári
Imre Bujdosó

;Men's team sabre

György Nébald, Bence Szabó, Imre Bujdosó, Imre Gedővári, László Csongrádi

;Women's foil

Zsuzsa Némethné Jánosi
Gertrúd Stefanek
Edit Kovács

;Women's team foil

Zsuzsa Némethné Jánosi, Gertrúd Stefanek, Zsuzsa Szőcs, Katalin Tuschák, Edit Kovács

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Hungary in 1988. János Martinek won an individual gold and the team also won gold too.

Men's Individual Competition:

János Martinek — 5404 pts (→ Gold Gold Medal)
Attila Mizsér — 5281 pts (→ 4th place)
László Fábián — 5201 pts (→ 7th place)

Men's Team Competition:

Martinek, Mizser, and Fábián — 15886 pts (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 100 m Freestyle

Mihály-Richard Bodór

:* Heat — 52.77 (→ did not advance, 42nd place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

Zoltán Szilágyi

:* Heat — 1:53.75 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Norbert Agh

:* Heat — 1:54.72 (→ did not advance, 37th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

Zoltán Szilágyi

:* Heat — 1:53.75 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Norbert Agh

:* Heat — 1:54.72 (→ did not advance, 37th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

Valter Kalaus

:* Heat — 3:53.44

:* B-Final — 3:53.24 (→ 10th place)

Zoltán Szilágyi

:* Heat — 3:56.29

:* B-Final — 3:56.00 (→ 16th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Valter Kalaus

:* Heat — 15:23.01 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Norbert Agh

:* Heat — 15:52.80 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

Tamás Deutsch

:* Heat — 58.65 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

Tamás Deutsch

:* Heat — 2:03.17

:* B-Final — 2:04.42 (→ 14th place)

Tamás Darnyi

:* Heat — DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

Károly Güttler

:* Heat — 1:02.80

:* Final — 1:02.05 (→ Silver Silver Medal)

Tamás Debnár

:* Heat — 1:03.08

:* Final — 1:02.50 (→ 5th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

József Szabó

:* Heat — 2:14.97

:* Final — 2:13.52 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Péter Szabó

:* Heat — 2:17.10

:* Final — 2:17.12 (→ 8th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

Tamás Darnyi

:* Heat — 2:02.15

:* Final — 2:00.17 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

József Szabó

:* Heat — 2:09.08 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

Tamás Darnyi

:* Heat — 4:16.55

:* Final — 4:14.75 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

József Szabó

:* Heat — 4:20.85

:* Final — 4:18.15 (→ 4th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Tamás Deutsch, Károly Güttler, Valter Kalaus, and Mihály-Richard Bodór

:* Heat — 3:52.24 (→ did not advance, 16th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

Judit Csabai

:* Heat — 4:25.52 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

Judit Csabai

:* Heat — 8:56.37 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

Krisztina Egerszegi

:* Heat — 1:02.09

:* Final — 1:01.56 (→ Silver Silver Medal)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

Krisztina Egerszegi

:* Heat — 2:11.01

:* Final — 2:09.29 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

Gabriella Csépe

:* Heat — 1:11.10

:* B-Final — 1:11.24 (→ 14th place)

Table tennis

Tennis

Water polo

Men's team competition

Preliminary round (group B)

:* Defeated Greece (12-10)

:* Lost to Yugoslavia (9-10)

:* Drew with Spain (6-6)

:* Defeated China (14-7)

:* Lost to United States (9-10)

Classification Round (Group D)

:* Drew with Italy (9-9)

:* Defeated Australia (13-5) → 5th place

Team roster

:* Péter Kuna

:* Gábor Bujka

:* Gábor Schmiedt

:* Zsolt Petőváry

:* István Pintér

:* Tibor Keszthelyi

:* Balázs Vincze

:* Zoltán Mohi

:* Tibor Pardi

:* László Tóth

:* András Gyöngyösi

:* Zoltán Kósz

:* Imre Tóth

Head coach: Zoltan Kasas

Medalists

Competitors

Athletics

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Diving

Fencing

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Water polo

Men's team competition

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References